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27 October 2017

There is no Fragrance Route in Great Brak

On 24
September it was Heritage day in South Africa.
My husband and I decided to take our cameras and go for a drive.Great Brak River is about 25 km from our home
in Mossel Bay.I found a leaflet about
Great Brak River at the Mossel Bay Tourism office with a bit of detail about the
“Fragrance Route”.Since we love to take
photos of flowers, we decided to drive this route.(There should be lots of flowers on a fragrance
route…or so we thought)

The
following picture shows the description of the fragrance route. This is an extract out of the Great Brak
River leaflet:

What we
experienced on our drive:

Firstly
we could not find the Fragrance route.
We followed the vague map that was on the leaflet but nowhere along the
route were any signs to give information or directions.

Secondly, there were almost no flowers along the route…or what we thought is
the route. It is a gravel road that was
under construction. All the plants next
to the road were covered with dust and no flowers. No lavender. No Fynbos. No Proteas. No flowers.

We
drove through Friedersheim and still saw no flowers. September is the start of Spring and we definitely
expected to see some flowers. I know that
there is a drought in the Western Cape but still we expected a few flowers.

While
looking through our photos to select some for this post I found that we took
photos of three flowers on the whole drive.

While
we did enjoy the drive and JW loved seeing the horses and animals along the route
we felt cheated by the information in the leaflet.

There
is no fragrance Route in Great Brak River.

This is a marketing scam from the
tourist office. The only fragrance we
smelled was dust.

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I am a accountant and live in Mossel Bay in the Western Cape of South Africa. This blog is about traveling in South Africa. Some of our favourite places to visit is old churches and National Heritage Sites.

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